HP Contract Job Trends in London

HP
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring knowledge or experience of HP products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited HP over the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Hewlett-Packard Company.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 315 298
Rank change year-on-year +25 -17 +27
Contract jobs citing HP 91 66 106
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.64% 0.43% 0.55%
As % of the Vendors category 1.36% 0.98% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 49 81
10th Percentile £154 £250 £188
25th Percentile £184 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £440 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.98% -2.22% +5.26%
75th Percentile £499 £550 £594
90th Percentile £609 £600 £638
England median daily rate £280 £440 £400
% change year-on-year -36.36% +10.00% -6.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 0 2
10th Percentile £21.08 - £20.28
25th Percentile - - £20.69
Median hourly rate £25.15 - £21.75
75th Percentile - - £23.19
90th Percentile - - £23.83
England median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £24.00
% change year-on-year +4.01% +0.75% +0.38%

All Vendors
London

HP falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,707 6,764 7,791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 47.02% 44.28% 40.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,368 4,243 5,389
10th Percentile £334 £313 £300
25th Percentile £420 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £509 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.05% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 67 107
10th Percentile £17.88 £19.37 £16.94
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.80 £23.25
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% -8.27% +48.41%
75th Percentile £42.75 £64.38 £60.63
90th Percentile £65.96 £85.45 £86.35
England median hourly rate £23.83 £31.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.15% -31.11% +73.08%

HP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

HP job vacancy trend in London

HP
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP

HP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP in London over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HP in London

HP
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP

HP
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HP within the London region over the 6 months to 14 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -3 10 £496 +41.57% 7
West London -13 1 £475 +86.27% 2
South London - 1 £175 -
HP
England

HP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 15 (16.48%) Confluence
2 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.20%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.10%) WebSphere
Applications
1 32 (35.16%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (18.68%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (3.30%) BASE24
2 3 (3.30%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (2.20%) PORTIA
3 2 (2.20%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (1.10%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (1.10%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (1.10%) Sage X3
4 1 (1.10%) SAP ERP
4 1 (1.10%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (1.10%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 42 (46.15%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (9.89%) Azure
3 3 (3.30%) GCP
3 3 (3.30%) IaaS
3 3 (3.30%) PaaS
3 3 (3.30%) SaaS
4 2 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.20%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.10%) AWS
5 1 (1.10%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.10%) Tricentis Tosca
5 1 (1.10%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 33 (36.26%) Wireless
2 12 (13.19%) SSL
3 3 (3.30%) Firewall
4 2 (2.20%) DNS
4 2 (2.20%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.10%) DHCP
5 1 (1.10%) FTP
5 1 (1.10%) NetScaler
5 1 (1.10%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.40%) NonStop SQL
1 4 (4.40%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.30%) OLTP
3 1 (1.10%) Big Data
3 1 (1.10%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 1 (1.10%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.10%) MySQL
3 1 (1.10%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.10%) SAP BW
3 1 (1.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (29.67%) JIRA
2 6 (6.59%) TestRail
3 4 (4.40%) Selenium
4 3 (3.30%) Zephyr
5 1 (1.10%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.10%) Gatling
5 1 (1.10%) JMeter
5 1 (1.10%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.10%) NeoLoad
5 1 (1.10%) NUnit
5 1 (1.10%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.10%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.10%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.10%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 31 (34.07%) Banking
2 18 (19.78%) Finance
3 17 (18.68%) Social Skills
4 13 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 10 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (8.79%) Manufacturing
7 7 (7.69%) Electronics
7 7 (7.69%) Marketing
7 7 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (7.69%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.20%) Legal
9 1 (1.10%) Back Office
9 1 (1.10%) Billing
9 1 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.10%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.10%) Front Office
9 1 (1.10%) Law
9 1 (1.10%) Police
Job Titles
1 16 (17.58%) IT Support
2 14 (15.38%) IT Engineer
2 14 (15.38%) Senior
2 14 (15.38%) Support Engineer
3 11 (12.09%) Architect
4 10 (10.99%) Break Fix Engineer
4 10 (10.99%) Desktop Support
4 10 (10.99%) ServiceNow Architect
5 9 (9.89%) Field Engineer
5 9 (9.89%) IT Support Engineer
6 8 (8.79%) Senior Architect
7 7 (7.69%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
7 7 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support
7 7 (7.69%) Developer
7 7 (7.69%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
8 6 (6.59%) Analyst
8 6 (6.59%) Lead
8 6 (6.59%) Test Leader
9 5 (5.49%) Field Support Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (15.38%) REST
2 13 (14.29%) SOAP
2 13 (14.29%) Web Services
3 12 (13.19%) AngularJS
3 12 (13.19%) Apache Camel
3 12 (13.19%) HTML
3 12 (13.19%) HTML5
3 12 (13.19%) JDBC
3 12 (13.19%) jQuery
3 12 (13.19%) JSON
3 12 (13.19%) LDAP
3 12 (13.19%) ODBC
3 12 (13.19%) RabbitMQ
3 12 (13.19%) SAML
4 2 (2.20%) Middleware
4 2 (2.20%) XML
5 1 (1.10%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.10%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 30 (32.97%) Data Centre
2 15 (16.48%) Driving Licence
3 4 (4.40%) Mobile App
3 4 (4.40%) Tandem
4 3 (3.30%) EMV
5 2 (2.20%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.10%) Clustering
6 1 (1.10%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.10%) PKI
6 1 (1.10%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.10%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.10%) Smartphone
6 1 (1.10%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.10%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 35 (38.46%) Android
1 35 (38.46%) Mac OS
2 18 (19.78%) Windows
3 11 (12.09%) Windows 10
4 6 (6.59%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.30%) Linux
6 1 (1.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (24.18%) Agile
2 21 (23.08%) Customer Service
3 19 (20.88%) ITSM
4 16 (17.58%) Break/Fix
4 16 (17.58%) DevOps
5 15 (16.48%) Scrum
6 14 (15.38%) Microservices
6 14 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (13.19%) Integration Patterns
7 12 (13.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 12 (13.19%) User Acceptance Testing
8 11 (12.09%) Test Management
9 10 (10.99%) Test Automation
9 10 (10.99%) Test Strategy
10 9 (9.89%) Business Intelligence
11 8 (8.79%) Defect Management
12 7 (7.69%) Digital Marketing
12 7 (7.69%) End-to-End Testing
12 7 (7.69%) Programme Management
13 6 (6.59%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (16.48%) JavaScript
2 12 (13.19%) SQL
3 5 (5.49%) C
4 3 (3.30%) COBOL
5 2 (2.20%) Java
5 2 (2.20%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.20%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.20%) Python
5 2 (2.20%) VB
6 1 (1.10%) C#
6 1 (1.10%) C++
6 1 (1.10%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.10%) VBA
Qualifications
1 46 (50.55%) Security Cleared
2 45 (49.45%) SC Cleared
3 19 (20.88%) DV Cleared
4 8 (8.79%) ISTQB
5 5 (5.49%) Degree
6 2 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (2.20%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (2.20%) MCITP
6 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.10%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.10%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.10%) HP APS
7 1 (1.10%) ISEB
7 1 (1.10%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.10%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (14.29%) SLA
2 6 (6.59%) QA
3 3 (3.30%) ISO 8583
4 2 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.20%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.10%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.10%) BitLocker
2 1 (1.10%) Docker
2 1 (1.10%) Firmware
2 1 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.10%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 18 (19.78%) HP ALM
2 12 (13.19%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (6.59%) SCCM
4 2 (2.20%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.20%) SCOM
5 1 (1.10%) Grafana
5 1 (1.10%) HP Operations Orchestration
5 1 (1.10%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (1.10%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 38 (41.76%) Apple
1 38 (41.76%) Dell
2 34 (37.36%) Cisco
3 19 (20.88%) ServiceNow
4 17 (18.68%) Remedy
5 13 (14.29%) Microsoft
6 12 (13.19%) BMC
6 12 (13.19%) Ivanti
7 11 (12.09%) SAP
8 5 (5.49%) Oracle
9 3 (3.30%) IBM
10 2 (2.20%) Charles River
10 2 (2.20%) Citrix
10 2 (2.20%) SimCorp
10 2 (2.20%) VMware
11 1 (1.10%) Alteryx
11 1 (1.10%) F5
11 1 (1.10%) MobileIron
11 1 (1.10%) Sage
11 1 (1.10%) Splunk